Which brings us full circle to my much less confusing to a newbie (and less blog length statement)

"Depends on the converter. The one you posted *looks* like a passive device which would only work provided the PS/2 keyboard had the logic to run as a usb device. You'd need an active converter to use the PS/2 to USB devices."

abishur wrote:It's a guide for absolute beginners I'm trying to keep things simple here Besides, a 5.1V PSU is also going to have some margin of error and you get a board that goes enough into the negative and a PSU that goes enough into the positive and you have a Pi that won't work. But, by telling people to stick with exactly 5V because A) I relieve liability for legal recourse should someone burn their Pi because they got a 5.25V PSU and it output a little more than the advertised voltage and B) 5v is what it's designed for, it would be silly of me to tell people to be okay with using something else

abishur wrote:It's a guide for absolute beginners I'm trying to keep things simple here Besides, a 5.1V PSU is also going to have some margin of error and you get a board that goes enough into the negative and a PSU that goes enough into the positive and you have a Pi that won't work. But, by telling people to stick with exactly 5V because A) I relieve liability for legal recourse should someone burn their Pi because they got a 5.25V PSU and it output a little more than the advertised voltage and B) 5v is what it's designed for, it would be silly of me to tell people to be okay with using something else

Please read the quote that you quoting me saying. We will forever and always recommend an exact 5V PSU as we want to do our best to avoid situations where your PSU is on the plus side of things and your board is on the negative side of things and the net result is a dead board. Plus depending on the quality of the power in your area and the quality of your PSU, your 5.25 PSU might come out quite a bit higher than 5.25V. Ergo, despite the official USB specs saying they can take up to +0.25 beyond 5v, this guide will stick with a firm 5v recommendation

Then follow the best instructions i found @ //myraspberrypiexperience.blogspot.co.uk/p/using-dd-for-windows.html !!!!!!!!!But be very carefull!!!!!!!!
And thankyou 'Atom'? i am back up and running after following the //elinux.org/images/f/f9/Trinity_RPi_Specification.pdfi downloaded from //elinux.org/RPi_Trinity_Computer_Club

and am now teaching myself basic python thanks to the great themagpi.com

This i found gave me the smoothest install and it works with any iso, so you can choose.
I prefered this method as it was like my first preloaded card from maplin!

hmm... one option is to load your SD card into a linux computer and edit /etc/network/interfaces and assign a static IP, the other is to turn on internet sharing on your laptop so your laptop will assign an IP address, otherwise your pi will randomly get a private IP address.

As you suggested, I bridged the internet connection. Then I tried to find the Pi's IP address, using Angry IP Scanner. It didn't show up on the list. Maybe dhcpd is not enabled by default?

No DHCP is enabled by default, there are some threads discussing in detail how to get it set up so finding one of those would give more detailed info on how to get it set up, I'd do a site search with google ("site:raspberrypi.org <your search here>") to find them, or just start a new thread in general discussion for additional help

I am trying to use the Motorola Atrix dock as was shown in the Adafruit video on Youtube. I am having a very difficult time finding female micro USB & female micro HDMI adapters. Can anyone point me to a source for these?

I have seen them on eBay and Amazon. Getting them of eBay means longer delivery times as they come from China /Hong Kong but normally better prices. I got mine from eBay as I was prepared to wait, although I came very close to buying them from Amazon to avoid the 3-4 weeks wait for delivery via eBay

Regarding entering and exiting the GUI, My Pi boots straight into the GUI, how can I enter the text or how do I get to the 'command line' from the GUI to add or alter the lines of text that all you clever young ones are bandying about.
As you've probably guessed, I' an old fart of 65, quite literate in IT but Ive never seen anything like this little wonder before!
I've ordered a complete beginners book on the 'Pi' but I'm keen to get started on adding projects and such.
Please be gentle I'm really fragile.

I've downloaded Raspbian and used Win32DiskImager to write the OS to a 8gb class 4 SD card. However, when I start the Pi I'm met with the brief rainbow screen, then the Pi logo & a cursor that blinks twice - but that's it, it just sits there and goes no further

I've downloaded Raspbian and used Win32DiskImager to write the OS to a 8gb class 4 SD card. However, when I start the Pi I'm met with the brief rainbow screen, then the Pi logo & a cursor that blinks twice - but that's it, it just sits there and goes no further

Does anyone have any ideas what the problem may be please?

Thanks for your help.

Never mind, I've sorted it out myself. Many thanks for the inundation of helpful replies.

Hi Folks I am new to the forum and also new to pi I have set everything up all working ok got internet access, and I know this is a really stupid question but what do I do know I do not have a clue of what to do any help will be most greatfull thanks.
Nick

I am 11 years old and got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas. My dad and my uncle have been helping me learn how to use it. I started a blog talking about all of the things I've learned so far. Check it out at http://raspberrypikid.wordpress.com I wish I'd found this forum a long time ago. Some of the things I learned the hard way are here already (like startx and sudo shutdown).